Archaeology Notes

Event ID 711055

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/711055

NT07NE 47.01 0560 7660

Only one shale bing (spoil heap) is depicted on the 2nd edition of the OS 6-inch map (Linlithgowshire, 1897, sheet vi) to the N of the Union Canal (NT07NE 57.00). The bing occupies an area of about 7.33 hecatres.

By the date of the OS Revision, c.1915, the 25-inch map shows that an additional spoil heap of about 9.71 hectares with tramway running on the surface had been placed to the S of the canal on the site of the former Philipstoun Loch. Later editions of the OS maps show that the works had been demolished and most of the buildings removed leaving only the spoil heaps and the course of the mineral railway.

The current OS 1:2500 scale digital map depicts the surviving bings.

Information from RCAHMS (DE), December 2005